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"You rang?" George

Correct! George

"They sit there and use subliminal messages to suck your children's minds out! And I know what I'm talking about because I went to junior college for a semester and I studied psychology so I'm right in there, I know what's going on. And then they sit there, and they make your children feel like garbage and you, the father, who's working 24/7 delivering mail so you can make an alimony payment to a woman that slept with everybody at the post office, but me! And then when you get the toy, it breaks, and you can't fix it because it's little cheap plastic!" "Howard, I've been thinking... everything that you went through today for Jamie really shows how much you love him. And if you're willing to go through all of that for him just for a present, well, that makes me wonder..." "What?" "What did you get me?" George

The actress and a famous costar were mentioned in a one-hit wonder in the early 80s. George

I'm coming! I'm coming! Give me a minute! (That wasn't a quote, FYI.) George

See, now THAT's an "EZ quote." M*A*S*H George

Fargo? George

Actually Human did add MC to the other two. Whichever of you wants to go, go ahead. George

I think I was thinking of The Vampire Diaries. George

The list, with number of #1 hits: Beatles, 20 Maria Carey, 19 Rihanna, 14 Michael Jackson, 13 Drake, 13 Madonna, 12 The Supremes, 12 Taylor Swift, 12 Whitney Houston, 11 Janet Jackson, 10 Stevie Wonder, 10 I would think The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and maybe Madonna would be in the category, with Rihanna and Drake in the WTF? category. Anyway, Human got three of them, so I'll give this round to him George

It was. I suppose the Asimov references made it easy, but everything else was Will Smith references, which probably also would have been easy. George

"They may take away our lives, but they'll never take away our freedom!" George

Shall I just flip the cards? George

The source material for this movie was credited to Isaac Asimov, but in fact his "book" was a collection of short essays, one of them based on the works of Earl and Otto Binder ("Eando Binder"). Two TV-movie adaptations of the Binders' story appeared, in 1964 and 1995. (Otto Binder also wrote many comic books in the 60s and 70s and is considered the creator of Supergirl.) The original title for the film was "Hardwired." Director Alex Proyas had a difficult time with 20th Century Fox studio head Tom Rothman, who was threatening to remove the film's ending and replace it with "more jokes" just days before the film's premiere. Proyas intended to write a book about his experience making the film, which he describes as trying to run a marathon with the studio constantly throwing chairs in his path, but friends warned him that he'd never work in this town again. Even without the tell-all, this was his last studio film. George

My Brilliant Career The Final Conflict Dead Calm The Good Wife Until the End of the World Memoirs of an Invisible Man The Piano Sirens Event Horizon Jurassic Park The Hunt for Red October Perfect Strangers George

Marie Browning Vivian Rutledge Nora Temple Amy North Schatze Page Elizabeth Burns Cathy Grainger Julie Beck Catherine Wyatt Sylvia Broderick Margo Channing Harriet Bubbard Sally Ross Marcia Sindell Slim Chrysler Hannah Morgan Margaret Kramer Sin-Dee Ma Ginger May Markham Irene Jansen I suspect that you would do better if this were the actor/movie thread... George

Twilight? George

It's an Addams Family film. I'm thinking, the first. George

Yes No. George

The problem with this thread is the definition of "easy." The first tier of quotes would be those that are so famous that one does not have to have seen the movie to know it. ("Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." "You can't handle the truth!" "I'm melting! What a world, what a world!") The next tier would be those that, if you have seen the movie, would be instantly recognizable. ("Fat. lazy, and stupid is no way to go through life." "Sometimes, you just can't get rid of a bomb.") If you haven't seen the movie, though, you're not likely to guess it. The problem is the third tier. These are quotes from a movie you've seen so many times that they seem obvious to you but are vaguely recognizable (or unrecognizable) to most people. These quotes are ideal for "Name that Flick" but are maybe out of place here. I've seen "Crimson Tide" (at least, most of it); but the only reason I guessed correctly is that the last quote given basically was the whole plot of the movie. I suspect that there are about 30 first-tier lines. As Human has pointed out, it gets boring to rehash the same quotes over and over. I'll try to stay in first- or second-tier quotes. Now I've got to go think of one. George

Crimson Tide? George

No No No No One of the list is a sibling of another one on the list. George

"They let you dream just to watch 'em shatter You're just a step on the bossman's ladder But you've got dreams he'll never take away." George

It is, indeed. The opening sequence of the show. George

Mariah Carey is correct. In fact, she's #2 behind the Beatles. Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin are not on the list. When all the names are revealed, you'll probably go with a couple of them and with a couple others. George